still remembers that the Hong Kong film "Looking for Qin" starring Louis Koo and Lin Feng was popular all over the mainland. Special forces Xiang Shaolong traveled back to the Warring States Period by mistake, so with what he learned in his heart, he helped Proton Yingzheng return to Qin to ascend the throne and dominate the world.
The TV series will naturally be adapted and created according to the needs of the plot, so how did Yingzheng stand out in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period where hundreds of schools of thought contended and gunpowder were everywhere, and became the first emperor who unified the country?
In later generations, we can only rely on the words and objects that have been handed down to study and speculate. Sinologists and historians study writing, and archaeologists study objects. As a rigorous science, archaeology is of extraordinary significance to prove the historical origin and cultural changes of a people with practical and physical evidence. It's just that the archaeological reports are professional and theoretical, and it is difficult for ordinary people to understand and arouse interest.
In recent years, the state has realized that only when the people have a clear understanding of history and the importance of cultural heritage can they develop national pride and take the initiative to protect cultural relics. As a result, a number of "storytelling" archaeological popular science books came into being.
"Looking for Qin Traces" is by Xu Weihong, a researcher at the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, who has been engaged in archaeological research in the Qin and Han dynasties for more than 30 years, has participated in the excavation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang for more than 20 years, and served as the leader of the third excavation of the No. 1 pit, and her daughter Shen Kun told many details and interesting facts about the archaeological excavation site of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in a way that the common people can understand.
For example, the bronze edict of the "26th year" unearthed at the site of Xianyang City, the capital of Qin, proves that Qin Shi Huang declared the unification of the world in the 26th year of the reign of Qin (that is, 221 BC).
Regardless of Qin Shi Huang's personality, his abilities are obvious to all. Clues found in the history books show that he was an ambitious and domineering monarch. At the same time, perhaps because of the experience of being a proton in another country since childhood, it is said that Qin Shi Huang was able to bend and stretch and have a city government when he received people and things. It is such a figure who was able to build the Great Wall with the strength of the whole country when he was alive, and make terracotta figurines to accompany the burial after his death.
At first, the people did not know the value of the terracotta warriors and horses, thinking that they were hoodoos, and accidentally dug them up not only quietly, but also secretly broke them and abandoned them in the mess, which led to the discovery of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang The timing was delayed to the 70s of the 20th century. That's why it's all about making historical artifacts accessible to everyone today.
The scale of the terracotta figurines used by Qin Shi Huang to accompany the burial is unprecedented, and now the pit has been mined and has become one of the must-see check-in places for tourists to travel to Xi'an.
Where to dig and how to dig need to be analyzed and considered. For example, in ancient times, when sending troops, divination must be carried out first, and the layout of the formation was determined according to the hexagram. Workers do not have the superpowers of unknown prophets, and it is not easy to completely recreate the miracles created by the ancestors after discovering some of the terracotta figurines.
Viewers who have watched "Notes on Tomb Robbery" know that if there is a tomb, there will be theft, and the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is no exception. In the process of excavation, archaeologists have found a lot of man-made destruction in the future. This kind of overlapping and breaking of latecomers has even formed a cultural layer era in the long river of history.
In addition to the description of the archaeological process and the argumentation of historical facts through the excavation of cultural relics, the book also tells some things that make the author laugh. For example, because of her myopia, the author is relatively close to the color of the clods, but she is treated as a "Wen family" among tomb robbers who rely on the smell of the soil to distinguish the underground situation, and she is so angry that she exclaims that "archaeology is not the same as digging graves"!
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"Looking for the Traces of Qin" is written on the brown cover as a whole, which gives people a sense of visual heaviness as soon as it is opened. The book comes with four book tickets, which can be cut along the dotted line for individual use, or connected in a string to be used as a screen. There are also two postcards, one for the Terracotta Army and the one for the Horse Army. The characters are lifelike and the horses are vivid, as if they will follow them through time and space in the next second, standing on that land full of gunsmoke......
P.S. When I was young, I had an archaeological dream, although it gradually faded with the passage of time, but after opening this book, those dusty memories and restlessness came back to my brain, and I read the book in one go for a few hours. Attracted by this book, I also bought a few archaeological blind boxes on the Internet to experience the fun of archaeology with my children. Next, when I went to the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang in Xi'an to check in, I inadvertently revealed the professional knowledge I learned in this book!